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Eminent domain mass delusion hits San Berdoo

July 16, 2012 by Wayne Lusvardi A few hundred years ago there was the famous Dutch Tulip Mania of 1637. It was followed by the South Sea Bubble of 1711 and the Mississippi Company Bubble of 1719. In modern times,

Skelton is Shocked! Shocked! at political manipulation

CalWatchdog Staff July 16, 2012

July 16, 2012 By John Seiler George Skelton is Shocked! Shocked! that his beloved liberal, high-tax, big-waste Democrats are manipulating the initiative system. Did he expect they were going to run California like Switzerland? He writes writes about Proposition 25,

Get prepared for this year’s fire season

CalWatchdog Staff July 16, 2012

July 16, 2012 By Chriss Street California is one of the worst fire zones in the nation. As we go to press, there are at least 10 major fires and more than 55,000 acres of California burning. Major incidents include

Video: California after the bankruptcies

CalWatchdog Staff July 15, 2012

July 15, 2012 By John Seiler For those of you who don’t live in California, here’s a short documentary on what life really is like here now after the recent spate of bankruptcies:

Meghan Daum disses Sarah Palin

CalWatchdog Staff July 13, 2012

July 13, 2012 By John Seiler Political campaigns always cough up a strong element of comedy. The latest is Los Angeles Times marquee columnist Meghan Daum dissing Sarah Palin. It’s amusing because Meghan believes a) Sarah was a disaster for

Should San Berdoo cherry pick underwater mortgages?

CalWatchdog Staff July 13, 2012

July 13, 2012 By Wayne Lusvardi What a ripoff. San Bernardino County wants to use eminent domain to let a private mortgage lender cherry pick “underwater” mortgages without paying damages to the lenders. Doing so supposedly would stimulate the resale

Crime jumps as prisoners flood into county jails

CalWatchdog Staff July 13, 2012

July 13, 2012 By Dave Roberts California’s experiment in incarcerating tens of thousands of criminals in local jails or their homes rather than in state prisons is 10 months old, so the verdict is not yet in on whether it’s

First pensions, and now bankruptcy tsunami

CalWatchdog Staff July 12, 2012

July 12, 2012 By Steven Greenhut First Vallejo, then Stockton, then Mammoth Lakes and now San Bernardino. As Orange County Supervisor John Moorlach told Bloomberg News, the bankruptcy dominoes are starting to fall. One California city after another — following

Delta tunnel is a big drain compared to bullet train

CalWatchdog Staff July 12, 2012

July 11, 2012 By Wayne Lusvardi Who could have guessed it? A proposed water conveyance tunnel through the Sacramento Delta is a greater economic boondoggle than the California High-Speed Rail Authority. That’s the conclusion of Jeffrey Michael, director of the

The train that broke California’s back

CalWatchdog Staff July 12, 2012

July 12, 2012 By Chriss Street The state of California was already facing a $19 billion budget deficit, had shorted K-12 public schools $8 billion and are releasing imprisoned rapists into the “community probation” when the California Legislature’s Democratic majority